Porsche: possibile rientro in LeMans ed in F1

[Beckervdo]

New Porsche CEO and president Matthias Muller is weighing up a review of Porsche’s motorsport activities – and claimed the sports car brand could re-enter Le Mans with a full factory team, or even F1.

Muller was appointed on 1 October 2010 and has lots on his plate: he’s a VW veteran and is charged with integrating Porsche smoothly into the Volkswagen business empire as Wolfsburg ratchets up its ownership of Porsche. That integration includes motorsport, he told CAR at the 2010 Paris motor show.

Porsche: entering Le Mans… or F1!

Muller said racing was core to the Porsche DNA and that he was working on the sport strategy with his group colleagues. They see little point in competing head to head with dominant Audi in the LMP1 class at Le Mans, for instance, but would consider racing at La Sarthe if Audi changed its strategy.

‘There are two classes at Le Mans and there are two brands – Audi and Porsche,’ said Muller. ‘We do not want to both go into LMP1 as we have to discuss whether it makes sense for one of us to compete in LMP1 and the other go into F1.’

Porsche in Formula 1. Whatever next?

‘If VW won the Dakar next year for the third time maybe it’s time for us to do it,’ added Muller, immediately sparking images of 959s and race-specials in this reporter’s eyes.

It’s clear that Volkswagen’s masterplan is not to have inhouse brands competing in the same race series; in a very Germanic, logical worldview, they would rather have each brand racing and winning in separate programmes.

Muller added that Porsche’s motorsport activities were profitable. ‘We earn money through our motorsport business through private customers.’

Via CarMagazine.co.uk

[SaiKiSono]

ma non doveva entrarci audi in F1?viva la concorrenza interna anche in ambito agonistico

beata cruccolandia dove si hanno i soldi e la voglia di fare certe cose...non come le mille seghe mentali di qualcuno

PS:bisgnerà vedere se queste ipotesi diventeranno realtà però

[nucarote]

Se non si alleano con un Frank Williams o un Ron Dennis, rischiano seriamente di fare la fine di BMW e Toyota.

[Aymaro]

credo che si divideranno le categorie, un marchio in F1 ed un altro a Le Mans..

imho porsche a le mans visti con l'ibrido (operazione pubblicitaria in stile Audi per il TDI) e audi che cercherà la consacrazione della sua sportività in F1..

[Cosimo]

a metà anni 8o come motorista porsche aveva fatto grandissime cose in formula 1, tre mondiali mi pare li abbia vinti. (quelle bellissima mclaren con i colori della Marlboro, da qualche parte ho ancora il modellino)

Si è fatta una sonora figura di guano poi a inizio anni 90 con la footwork e ha mollato. Se riprende un bel concorrente in più e più spettacolo. Bene

[Matteo B.]

avrà un sacco di difetti ma la mano di Piech in Porsche si vede...ne ha cacciati via la metà dal board di prima e si ricomincia a correre sul serio